That’s what I thought the focus should be. Although, Im more for doing if as a loss-leader or bonus to licensing of enterprise software. The development and initial run are a sunk cost to get the hardware out there. They then make money on whatever software they sell with it. Kind of like Sirrix or GD if they weren’t trying to squeeze money out of hardware as much.

Talos business model doesn’t look to support this. It would have to be a different company. Apple is probably in ideal position to do it with their cash and vertical integration but aren’t interested.

Anyone else laugh reading that? The use of POWER, even if justifiable, seems to always drive price up. Those servers are super expensive used on eBay every time I look them up. The last Talos Workstation was well-priced relative to that but too high relative to high-volume x86. This one has two POWER9’s versus other one’s POWER8 if Im remembering right.

I hope the best outcome for this project but Im skeptical of competitive pricing until I see it happen.